The Short Title of this Act is “The Adulteration Prevention Acts Amendment Act, 1891.”

This Act shall be read together with “The Adulteration Prevention Act, 1880,” and “The Adulteration Prevention Act 1880 Amendment Act, 1883,” and shall be deemed to form part thereof respectively.

Sections twenty-two and twenty-three of “The Adulteration Prevention Act, 1880,” and sections four to seven of “The Adulteration Prevention Act 1880 Amendment Act, 1883,” are hereby respectively repealed, and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted as follows:—

All bread made for sale, except as hereinafter excepted, shall be made into loaves weighing not less than one pound, two pounds, four pounds, six pounds, and eight pounds respectively, and which loaves shall be called and understood to be the one-pound loaf, two-pounds loaf, four-pounds loaf, six-pounds loaf, and eight-pounds loaf.

Every person who makes for sale, or sells or offers for sale, bread of any other denomination or size, or sells or offers for sale any loaf which shall be found deficient of its due weight when weighed in the shop, house, or premises, at the time it is sold or offered for sale, and which has been baked within twenty-four hours next preceding the time of its being so sold or offered for sale, the proof of which shall be on the baker or seller thereof, shall be liable, for every such offence, to a penalty not exceeding five pounds and not less than forty shillings.

Any person who may purchase any such loaf of bread from any such baker or seller of bread may, if he or she shall think proper, require the same to be immediately weighed in his or her presence.

Nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to prevent any baker or seller of bread from making or selling bread usually sold under the denomination of French or fancy rolls or twists of such weight or size as he shall think fit, and without previously weighing the same.

Every baker or seller of bread, and every journeyman servant or other person employed by such baker or seller of bread, who shall convey and carry out bread for sale in any cart, or other carriage drawn by a horse or other animal, shall be provided with and constantly carry in such cart or other carriage a correct beam and scales with proper weights or other sufficient balance for weighing loaves of bread of the regulated weights of one pound, two pounds, four pounds, six pounds, and eight pounds respectively.

And any person who may purchase any such loaf of bread may, if he or she shall think proper, require the same to be weighed in his or her presence.

In case any such baker or seller of bread, or his journeyman servant or other person, shall at any time carry out or deliver any bread in any such cart or other carriage as aforesaid without being provided with proper weights or other sufficient balance, or shall at any time refuse to weigh any bread purchased of him, or delivered by his journeyman servant or other person in the presence of the person or persons purchasing or receiving the same, then and in every such case every such baker or seller of bread shall be liable, for every such offence, to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, and not less than twenty shillings.